🗡️ BladeMaster’s Guide to Knife Set Documentation

Hey Collectors,
Ever wonder what makes a knife set really shine in KnifeDB? Let me walk you through it. This isn’t just about pretty pictures, it’s about clarity, completeness, and helping collectors make smart money decisions.

📸 What Makes a Set “Perfect”?

A well-documented knife set includes:

A group photo of the entire set
A photo of each knife in the set
A Certificate of Authenticity (COA), visible when viewing the set and each knife individually. (Not all sets originally have them)
Selling prices for the full set
Selling prices of the individual knives from broken sets.

When all these pieces are in place, I mark the set with an asterisk * at the start of the remarks. If something’s missing, I use a question mark ? and explain what’s missing.
Example: “We cannot find a legible COA for Limited Edition IV, despite hours of searching. (Feel free to send us a pic if you have it.)” At this time, sets from 2015 back to 1994, have been worked to “finished” or asterisk status. We continue going back in the years to perfect the older sets every day.

🧠 Confusing Bits You Should Know

🗓️ Set Year Variations

Let’s say a set was sold in 1997. Great. But you pick up a knife from that set stamped 1996. If you search for sets from 1996, that 1997 set should still show up.
Why? Because some sets span multiple years. One Limited Edition set has the same 62005 RAZ knife with 1996, 1997, and 1998 tang stamps. Yep, same knife, three different years, same set.

💰 Pricing Individual Knives

To get accurate prices for individual knives, someone has to break up a set and sell the knives one by one. We add those prices to the knife records when we find them.
But smaller sets? They usually stay intact. So how do we price those knives?
Simple math:

A 4-knife set sold for $400 → each knife is worth $100
A 5-knife set sold for $400 → each knife is worth $80

Sure, it’s not perfect, but it’s better than leaving the price blank. These are tagged as “%Set/Group Sales Price.”

🧾 Final Thoughts from the BladeMaster

As my buddy Tommy Rex Schnable says:
“If you know more, then you are smarter.”

So let’s keep the records clean, the sets complete, and the collectors informed. Got a missing COA or a missing photo? Send it in. We’re all in this together.